Kill boxes authorize firing at will within designated airspace cubes.
Evidence
“When established, the primary purpose of a kill box is to allow air assets to conduct interdiction against surface targets without further coordination with the establishing commander.” Once one recognizes that “the mosaic nature of COIN [counterinsurgency] is ideally suited to decentralized execution,” each cube becomes “an autonomous zone of operations” for the combat units assigned to it. To put this more clearly: within a given cube, one may fire at will. A kill box is a temporary autonomous zone of slaughter. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 240 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
But those squares are also, and above all, cubes. This is the central concept of the “kill box,” a notion that emerged in the early 1990s: “The kill box is graphically portrayed by a solid black line defining the area with diagonal black lines within.” One should imagine a theater of operations portrayed on a screen in 3-D as a set of cubes laid out on a surface divided into squares. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 238 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Kill boxes authorize firing at will without further coordination per cube. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 240; Kill boxes partition theaters of operations into three-dimensional cubes. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 238
Related
- Kill boxes authorize firing at will without further coordination per cube. (similarity 0.97)
- Kill boxes partition theaters of operations into three-dimensional cubes. (similarity 0.95)
- Kill boxes can be extended anywhere, anytime a qualifying target is found. (similarity 0.82)
- RAND advised Rumsfeld in 2005 to adopt non-linear flexible kill boxes. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Kill boxes authorize firing at will without further coordination per cube.
#corroborates(0.70) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 240 - Kill boxes partition theaters of operations into three-dimensional cubes.
#expands(0.60) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 238